A disgraced NHS doctor who was banned from practising nine years ago was caught carrying out “unnecessarily painful” circumcisions with a rusty hook – causing one child’s penis to “explode”.
Mohammed Siddiqui, 58, was jailed for five and a half years after cops uncovered the unregulated circumcision service that he ran after exploiting a medical loophole. The former paediatrician was struck off almost a decade prior after bungling religiously motivated circumcisions on four boys.
But this didn’t stop him from finding a way to operate a “mobile children’s circumcision service” both privately and legally, where he carried out more than 1,500 of the botched procedures across the UK. Over a five year period, Siddiqui was said to have “cut corners and caused unnecessary pain, suffering, cruelty and risk” to “maximise profits” on his £300 operations – all of which were done by appointment at the family homes of patients.
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His young patients were left “screaming” in agony after being given insufficient pain relief during the procedures, which Siddiqui performed using rusty medical equipment. In one case, a 15-year-old boy’s penis “exploded with blood” due to a blood clot that developed shortly after his procedure.
Another child “almost died” after suffering a severe reaction to Bupivacaine, an anaesthetic used to numb an area of the body during surgery. After searching his car, cops found a rusty hook with a serrated wheel and bloodied scissors with tests showing they had traces of human skin on them. An angry Siddiqui later said in a courtroom outburst that the allegations against him were “lies”, adding: “The scissors and skin was all planted by the police. My blood is boiling.”
Officers also found a “circumcision immobiliser” in the back of his vehicle, a device used to restrain children during circumcisions, plus other instruments which had not been properly sterilised. Inquiries revealed Siddiqui, of Winston Green, Birmingham, had been struck off the GMC register in 2015 and branded a risk to patients after a string of botched circumcisions between June 2012 and November 2013 when he was employed as a Clinical Fellow in paediatric surgery at University Hospital Southampton.
At Inner London Crown Court, Siddiqui was jailed for 67 months and was made subject of serious organised crime prevention order preventing him from carrying out non-therapeutic circumcisions after his release. He was convicted at an earlier hearing of 12 charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, five charges of cruelty to a child and eight charges of administering prescription only medicines between 2014 and 2019.